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Show of hands: who here worked for a dot-bomb?

I kind of wish I could buy my groceries on the intraweb. It would allow me to spend even more time in my dank cave, away from the harsh yellow face that burns us.
 
Kibu.com (1999-2000)

Unlike the other flops listed here, Kibu.com, an online community for teenage girls, didn't wait till the very end to wave the white flag
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They must have figured out that there weren't actually any girls on the internet.
 
our local grocery store offerred that type of service for a while in 2001, we ordered from it once , maybe twice
 
I did a project for #10: GovWorks (Didn't actually work for them)

Think I still have the T-Shirt somewhere
 
Originally posted by: rh71
what was your salary like when it was flourishing ?
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I was a net admin at the time, and it was very competitive and on the higher end of the curve to the industry standard.

after the laid off us 2000+ people from wasvan, it took me 6 months to get another job and I had to take an 18.3% pay cut...it was hell for me.

now I'm doing ok, but man oh man, I was hurting 4 years ago...

lemme tell you, wasvan was the best night shift job I'd ever had, it was great! 3 days on, 3 days off...etc. It was like a long weekend after 3 long days of work..I loved it! when we had to work weekends, we watched SNL 😀 bottom was that they build too much and too fast.

the Atlanta hub was supposed to deliver 7000+ orders per day, the max we ever did was around 2600+ orders. And those days were killer because we had to work extra to fill all the orders. I couldn't imagine how we were supposed to fill 7000+ orders per day. Some of those orders were $300+ and it took 10+ totes to fill the order. we were losing big of delivery. The logo change was another dumb idea by webvan...why in hell did the powers that be decide to change from a very warn grocery bag looking logo to some generic WV logo is beyond me.....I think that's when we started to lose a lot of business because people didn't recognize our logo anymore. That and the fact that CEO had $20M+ bonus one year....WTF! how did they justify that when the business was failing? :|

all that info was public btw...
 
Originally posted by: tami
no, but i did order from kozmo.com (#3)
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i remember coupon codes for kozmo were posted here and FW that gave you 20 off 20...those were great times.

oh and i worked customer service for babygear.com
 
I'd swear Barrons burst the dot.com bubble with one of their articles. In feb or march, they did an indepth analysis and had a cover story that showed 25 well known dotcoms were going to run out of money by the end of the year.

Over the next few weeks a violent selloff ensued that signalled the end.
 
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